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ONU reconoce politica agraria de narcoguerrilla colombiana

'merecido' homenaje de la onu al denonado, sistematico y lucrativo esfuerzo desplegado durante decadas por las narcoguerrillas colombianas farc y ep en su politica de desarrollo agrario integral sustentado en el cultivo de la coca, y la fabricacion y comercializacion a escala planetaria de la cocaina.

Olga Virginia González Reyes funcionaria de la ONU en Colombia, entrega al jefe de la delegación guerrillera Iván Márqueza de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) los resultados del foro sobre Política de Desarrollo Agrario Integral celebrado en Bogotá.

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Funcionarios de las Naciones Unidas en Colombia y de la Universidad Nacional de ese país entregaron este miércoles a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) los resultados del foro sobre Política de Desarrollo Agrario Integral celebrado en Bogotá en diciembre pasado, durante un encuentro en La Habana

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Woman Busted Smuggling Cocaine in Breast Implants

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Spain arrests a woman with cocaine breast implants after she gets off of a flight from Bogota, Colombia.

Interceptados en Espana 65 kilos de cocaína procedentes de Cuba

La Voz de Galicia/ J.A. Fariñas

Agentes de del Cuerpo Superior de Policía interceptaron ayer de un alijo de 65 kilos de cocaína que entró en Galicia procedente de Cuba por el sistema del «gancho ciego». La droga fue encontrada casualmente por los destinatarios de un contenedor de carbón que llegó a una nave del polígono industrial La Artística, ubicado en el límite de los municipios de A Coruña y Arteixo, a través del puerto de Vigo. Al no existir indicios de que los destinatarios de la mercancía legal tengan relación con la droga, no se producido ninguna detención. Como quiera que este tipo de alijos se retiran en el puerto de destino antes de que sea despachado el contenedor para su destinatario final, no existen datos que hagan sospechar que la cocaína se fuera a retirar en A Coruña.

Es novedoso el puerto de origen del contenedor, ya que Cuba no suele ser lugar de embarque habitual de narcocontendores. No se descarta que la droga se introdujera en alguna escala intermedia.

Mujica: la marihuana merece “más respeto y conocerla mucho más”

BBC

Pero si se aprueba un proyecto de ley que han redactado legisladores oficialistas, es posible que en un futuro el Estado que encabeza Mujica deba regular la producción y venta de esa droga a consumidores.

Si bien el mandatario asegura que "era más bien contrario" a esa legalización, él mismo terminó impulsando la idea de legislar.

"Lo de México me sacudió el alma", indica Mujica en alusión a la violencia desatada en ese país por los carteles del narcotráfico.

En una entrevista con BBC Mundo en la chacra donde vive en las afueras de Montevideo, afirma que incluso en Uruguay, un país de 3,3 millones de habitantes con menores índices de violencia que sus vecinos, han aparecido fenómenos "como el ajuste de cuentas" vinculados al negocio de la droga.

"Lo que me asusta es el narcotráfico, no la droga", sostiene. "Y por la vía represiva es una guerra perdida: se está perdiendo en todas partes".

Mercado regulado

Legisladores opositores uruguayos han expresado su rechazo a la legalización de la marihuana.

El proyecto de ley, que este martes fue presentado a la bancada de diputados del gobernante Frente Amplio y el jueves se presentará a la oposición, propone que el Estado uruguayo regule la producción, distribución y venta de cannabis en el país.

También admite que particulares lo cultiven para su propio consumo, según redactores del texto.

Mujica dice que su intención es evitar que los consumidores de marihuana traten con vendedores que los inducen a probar pasta base de cocaína, una droga que, asegura, "está pudriendo a la muchachada común y corriente y la más pobre".

"Además me envenena, porque cada vez tengo que gastar más plata en policía, en cárceles y en las consecuencias. Y no tengo plata para atender a los enfermos", le comentó a BBC Mundo.

Su idea respecto a la marihuana, cuenta, es identificar "cuando el tipo se pasa de la raya y decirle: 'm'hijo, usted se tiene que internar o hay que cuidarlo'. Y no tenerlo en el mundo clandestino y tratar como a un delincuente a un tipo que tiene una adicción y en el fondo tiene una enfermedad. No le puedo regalar enfermos al narcotráfico".

"País pacato"

Pero admite que su propuesta genera resistencias en la sociedad uruguaya.

"Uno le dice a la gente 'regularizar la marihuana' y te empiezan a mirar, ¿no? Como (si fuera) una cosa del diablo""

José Mujica, presidente de Uruguay

"Uruguay es un país pacato, de viejos. La mayoría somos viejos y de tendencia conservadora. Uno le dice a la gente 'regularizar la marihuana' y te empiezan a mirar, ¿no? Como (si fuera) una cosa del diablo".

"Es todo una exageración. En realidad el cannabis tuvo que ver con el descubrimiento de América. El cannabis se usaba para hacer las velas (y) para hacer estopa de tapar las hendijas de los barcos. Ha acompañado toda la epopeya en el Nuevo Mundo. Merece que lo tratemos con más respeto y conocerlo mucho más", dijo.

"Estamos luchando contra el prejuicio", indica. "Esto tampoco se puede instrumentar pasándole por arriba al país".

Legisladores opositores han expresado su rechazo a la iniciativa oficialista, que sin embargo podría ser aprobada con los votos del gobernante Frente Amplio, una coalición de izquierda que tiene mayoría parlamentaria.

Hasta ahora la ley uruguaya permite el consumo de marihuana pero prohíbe su comercialización.

40 gramos mensuales

Mujica alega que la vía represiva es una guerra perdida.

El proyecto de ley plantea crear un organismo que regularía el mercado local de cannabis y definiría con el gobierno si dará licencias al Estado o a particulares para producir, distribuir y vender la droga, dice el diputado oficialista Sebastián Sabini a BBC Mundo.

El texto prevé un máximo de venta de 40 gramos mensuales por adulto registrado para comprar y también admite el cultivo para consumo individual en casas (hasta seis plantas por hogar) y clubes (con hasta 15 miembros y hasta 90 plantas).

Mujica sostiene que sería posible "hacer trazabilidad" de la marihuana que venda Uruguay para evitar que el producto sea exportado a otros países.

"Yo le puedo vender a usted equis cigarrillo y si eso aparece en Brasil yo a usted lo hago responsable", señala Mujica.

"No queremos joder a los vecinos (...) ni puedo permitirme el lujo de que vengan los pichicateros (drogadictos) de por ahí a dársela acá. ¡No, estamos fritos con eso, porque sería de nunca acabar!"

Popeye: Fidel, Raul y el narcotrafico

Maria Elvira Salazar 

Fidel y Raúl Castro recibían dinero de Pablo Escobar en directo, con pocos intermediarios.
Esto es lo que dice Popeye, la mano derecha de Pablo Escobar.

Cuban Drug Seizures In First Half Highest In 8 Years

radioangulo.cu

HAVANA, October 4 (Xinhua) -- Cuba seized 1.644 tons of drugs in the first half of 2012, registering the largest amount of drugs netted over a six-month period in the past eight years, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.

Speaking at the 11th International Meeting on Criminal Sciences, which concluded Thursday, Yoandry Gonzalez, chief of the Department of Operational Cooperation of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), said the cache of drugs was composed mainly of marijuana and a small amount of hashish.

The amount is "the highest in the past 8 years," said Gonzalez, adding anti-narcotics operations were carried out in conjunction with the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) Customs Office of the Republic.

Most seizures in Cuba take place along the coasts, since drugs are often shipped by boat and thrown overboard by traffickers when they fear being found. Packages of drugs are sometimes also dropped into the sea north of Cuba by low-flying small aircraft, which are to be picked up later by speed boats headed to U.S. shores.

"In 2011 and the first half of 2012, authorities detected an increase in international (drug) trafficking from Jamaica to the Bahamas, destined for the United States, the world's largest drug consumer," Gonzalez told participants at the meeting.

Some 22 anti-narcotics operations at Cuban airports over the same period led to the arrest of 27 people, and the seizure of 23.33 kilos of cocaine and 8.25 kilos of marijuana.

According to Gonzalez, among the most common methods used to smuggle drugs into the country are hiding them in women's footwear or inside candles, toiletries, food and bicycles, and by swallowing them.

Gonzalez attributed the rise in drug trafficking primarily to the high value of illicit drugs in Cuba.

Increased drugs smuggling is "spurred by the high prices of drugs in the domestic market -- much higher than in other countries in the region -- and the interest of foreign traffickers and Cubans living abroad to explore potential new markets after the saturation of traditional ones," he explained.

Despite the rise in trafficking, however, "there has been no change in the internal situation in terms of drug consumption," he added.

Cuba is not a producer or consumer of illicit drugs, but it is located along the main trafficking route from South America to the United States, he said.

’Godmother of Cocaine,’ Griselda Blanco, gunned down in Medellin, Colombia

Griselda Blanco

By NBC News staff

The convicted Colombian drug smuggler known as the “Godmother of Cocaine,” Griselda Blanco, 69, was gunned down by a motorcycle-riding assassin in Medellin, Colombian national police confirmed late Monday, according to the Miami Herald.

Blanco spent nearly 20 years in prison in the United States for drug trafficking and three murders before being deported to Colombia in 2004, the Herald reported.

Two armed riders pulled up to Blanco as she was leaving a butcher shop in her hometown, and one shot her twice in the head, the Herald reported, citing a report in El Colombiano newspaper.  More >>

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The Mexican elections and their impact on the drug war

Just the Facts/  By intern

Vázquez Mota, Peña Nieto y López Obrador

During the second and final presidential debate on June 10, the three main candidates in the Mexican election discussed how they would move forward in the continuing drug war. All three pledged a different strategy to that which has been carried out by current president Felipe Calderón, who has focused on using the armed forces as the main form of attack during his tenure. This has led to a death toll "which has spiraled out of control during Mr. Calderón's six-year tenure." Each candidate has mentioned reducing the body count, although the manner in which they plan to achieve this differs.

Below is an overview of the three candidates' strategies for combating the violence in Mexico.

The three candidates:

Enrique Peña Nieto: The current front-runner, for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), stated recently in an interview with the New York Times that

The adjustment in the strategy is to focus on decreasing violence [as opposed to reducing drug trafficking]. And that means that the whole Mexican state, jointly between the three levels of government‚ - state, federal and municipal‚ - should really focus its efforts on combating homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the homicides committed, as with kidnapping and extortion.

Peña Nieto's promises include:

• Bringing more police to less populated areas. "There are too few police, sometimes without equipment, without weapons, and organized crime . . . ends up easily getting there and taking over these places with small populations."
• Focusing on "combating homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the homicides committed, as with kidnapping and extortion" primarily through cutting corruption.
• While Peña Nieto says he will continue to work with the United States, he has made clear that Mexico should not be "subordinate to the strategies of other countries."
• Peña Nieto has said he would hire former Colombian police chief, Oscar Naranjo, as a security advisor. A move which could mean continued strong U.S.-Mexican cooperation, according to the Washington Post.

One question being asked is whether Mr. Peña Nieto really would be a new leader for the PRI or simply a return to the old guard which ruled the country for 71 years and which many allege allowed the cartels to exist in return for benefits for the government.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador: AMLO, as he is often known, represents a leftist, three-party coalition called the Progressive Movement. He is a returning candidate who narrowly lost the 2006 election to current president Calderón. López Obrador has had to change his campaign strategy for this election and distance himself from his failed attempt at the presidency, although his attitude towards the drug war has not changed hugely.

AMLO's promises include:

• A holistic strategy he has dubbed "Abrazos, no balazos," or "Hugs, not bullets," which focuses on reducing unemployment and fostering economic growth to end the drug war.
• A new federal police force to replace the army in the streets, though he has not elaborated on how this would be organized.
• He has not ruled out legalizing drugs, but will consult with experts and local governments.
• On collaboration with the U.S.: Rather than increased or continued U.S. military aid, AMLO argues that Mexico would benefit more from receiving economic credits that could be used for social programs.

Although polls present differing views of how close the election is currently, López Obrador is generally agreed to be in second place.

Josefina Vázquez Mota: Vázquez Mota is the first female presidential candidate fielded by a major political party in Mexico, representing the Partido Acción Nacional or PAN, the party of current president Calderón.

Her promises include:

• A return to law and order by establishing a well paid, well-trained police force from within the community.
• A four-pillar approach focusing on security, well-being, productivity, and a sustainable Mexico.
• On collaboration with the U.S.: "We have to continue strengthening our relationship with the United States" in an effort to move forward with the drug war.

This is markedly different from Calderón's increased use of the army in an attempt to tackle corruption within the police force. Although Vázquez Mota was second in the polls at one point, in the past month she has slipped down to third place behind López Obrador.

The election outcome

Only one of these candidates will have the opportunity to take their proposed policies forward past the July 1st election. Although polls currently suggest Peña Nieto is the favorite to win, there has been some indication that the Yarrington scandal, in which President Calderón has accused a former governor and member of the PRI for alleged links with drug cartels and corruption, has damaged the perception of Peña Nieto by association. With just under two weeks remaining, it remains to be seen if he can hold his lead.

Economies of Scale in the Cocaine Industry

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Freakonomics/

Brian Palmer of Slate reports that cocaine prices have dropped significantly in the past three decades due to economies of scale. As drug traffickers have become more organized (in processing, transport, and retail networks), the price of cocaine has plunged:

Since [the end of the 1980s], the price has dropped more slowly, down to approximately $140 for a gram of pure cocaine in 2007. (That’s almost 80 percent less than it cost in 1982.) Some of the continued decline is attributable to increased production and softening demand, but a large component likely has to do with changes on the retail end. According to figures compiled by Jonathan P. Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, around 33 percent of the price of cocaine went toward compensating smugglers and dealers for the risk of violence in 1990.

Technology is another factor in reducing transaction costs, and Palmer writes that “enforcement of drug laws has added substantially to the cost of street drugs, but those increases haven’t been enough to outpace efficiency gains in the industry.”

Russia rages after US jails notorious arms dealer

 

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Russia is furious over a 25-year prison sentence imposed on arms dealer Viktor Bout -- seen inside a cell at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand -- by a court in the U.S.

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CIA Agents Reveal "Secrets of the CIA"

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"The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorists association. You don't look at people as human beings. They are nothing but pieces on the chessboard." -- Verne Lyon, former CIA agent in revealing documentary "Secrets of the CIA"

Secrets of the CIA is a revealing 45-minute Turner Home Entertainment documentary available for free viewing at the link below. In this riveting exposé, five former CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in the name "national security" and promoting foreign policy agendas.

A Notre Dame football star, an aerospace engineering senior at Iowa State, an attractive high school graduate, a young patriot, and an Olympic shooting champion all were recruited by the CIA at a young age. These five brave individuals risk retaliation in revealing the story of their gradual disillusionment and finally defection from the CIA, as they eventually became convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were serving neither democracy, nor the people of their country.

The Olympic shooting champion describes being put in charge of overthrowing the democratically elected government of Guatemala. The patriot relates his deep remorse for his direct responsibility in the deaths of numerous innocent people for which he can never make amends. The pretty high school graduate describes how her initial addiction to power and intrigue turned to disgust and horror. This powerful documentary is a rare and remarkable look at the results of unbridled secrecy and the lengths to which some elements in government will go to achieve questionable foreign policy goals.

Sen. Feinstein singles out Cuba as potential drug smuggling point

MiamiHerald.com/ By David Goodhue

A California senator who chairs a congressional caucus on international drug trafficking warned last week that Cuba could become a significant hub for illegal drugs entering the United States in the near future.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) made the remarks while leading a hearing on what several observers consider the growing possibility that the Caribbean could become an even larger transit zone for illegal drugs. If the trend happens or is happening, it is likely because of increased pressure international law enforcement is placing on violent drug cartels in Mexico and elsewhere in Central America, these observers say.
While mentioning the growing drug violence throughout the Caribbean during opening statements of the Feb. 1 hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Feinstein said Cuba should not be considered immune from the problem.
“I would be remiss not to mention Cuba. Just 90 miles from Florida, Cuba has the potential to be a major trans-shipment point for illicit drugs,” she said.
The statement comes just weeks after Cuba’s state-run newspaper, Granma, reported the communist government last year confiscated more foreign-borne drugs than in any time during the past seven years.
It also comes as U.S. officials are making public statements over concerns about increased smuggling activity in the Caribbean as a whole.
In October, William Brownfield, assistant secretary of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, testified in front of Congress that increased attention on Mexico would likely force drug smugglers to look to the Caribbean as a gateway to get their products into the United States.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/10/2634547/sen-dianne-feinstein-singles-out.html#storylink=cpy

Border agents discover largest drug tunnel ever

Mexico's 'super labs' send meth pouring into US

Alejandro Acosta / Reuters, file

A soldier guards boilers at an outdoor clandestine methamphetamine laboratory discovered in Chiquilistlan, Mexico, on December 7.

By F. Brinley Bruton, msnbc.com

The number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has rocketed in the last five years but shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow, according to government statistics.

The increase highlights how Mexico’s cartels have diversified beyond their traditional focus of exporting cocaine, heroin and marijuana by transforming their operations to also make methamphetamines on an industrial scale.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted “a sustained upward trend in Mexican methamphetamine availability in U.S. markets.” Research by the U.S. government also shows that methamphetamine prices are falling and that the purity level of seizures is rising.

According to information from Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense, 22 methamphetamine labs were seized in 2007. That number increased to 206 in 2011.

The vast majority of these were classed as super labs – in contrast to smaller operations that characterize much of the production in the United States, a secretariat official confirmed to msnbc.com.  The official asked for anonymity for security reasons.

"Methamphetamine seizure rates inside the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico border have increased markedly since 2007," according to a U.S. Department of Justice report.

'In the business of making money'
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials said they could not comment specifically on statistics released by the Mexican government, but acknowledge that the cartels have adapted and changed since President Felipe Calderon declared his war on drugs in December 2006. More >>

Drug Fight Builds US-Cuba Bridges [or a Cuba Blackmail]

From here, the Border Guard coordinates efforts to intercept illegal drug shipments passing through Cuban territorial waters and airspace. "Geographically speaking," General Lazaro Roman emphasized, "Cuba is stretched out between the drug-producing and the drug-consuming countries."http://www.wsicubaproject.org/

InSight Crime/ by  Geoffrey Ramsey

Fighting drug trafficking is one of the few issues where the US and Cuba actually collaborate, albeit on a small scale, though the true extent of drug smuggling on the island remains shrouded in mystery.

At a Senate hearing on international drug trafficking this week, lawmakers voiced concerns about the potential for ·Cuba to become a major transit point for drugs into the US. While discussing a surge in drug smuggling through the Caribbean, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) warned that the island could turn into an important distribution platform for traffickers.

Since the 1959 revolution, Cuba has presented itself as taking a tough stance on organized crime, in part in response to the fact that, under the Batista regime, the country was known as a haven for mob activity. During the latest meeting of the Communist Party Congress, President Raul Castro issued a sharp critique of corruption on the island, calling it "one of the main enemies of the revolution." It is likely that the kind of corruption Castro was referring to relates to bribery and embezzlement rather than collusion with drug traffickers. The most recent high profile corruption case in the country, for instance, involved a former minister who was convicted of accepting bribes from a Chilean businessman.

But the country has not been immune from the international drug trade. In 1989, General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, who fought alongside Fidel Castro during the revolution, was executed along with three other military officers for their roles in a multi-million dollar cocaine smuggling ring linked to Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel. Nine years later, in 1998, Colombian officials intercepted a 7.2 ton shipment of cocaine bound for Cuba. According to anonymous Colombian law enforcement authority cited by the Miami Herald at the time, the large size of the shipment suggested that the route had been used before. "No one dares to send seven tons at one blow unless they've tested the route,'' said the official.

Since these incidents, there has been evidence to suggest that drug trafficking is on the rise on the island, fueled by a small but growing domestic market. Cuba first acknowledged the existence of this consumption in January 2003, and promised that there would be “no impunity” for anyone caught trafficking illicit substances.

Even with the resulting crackdown, the flow of drugs into the country appears to be increasing. The government recently announced that they had seized nine tons of drugs in 2011, three times more than in 2010. The majority of this was reportedly marijuana, with only a small percentage of cocaine and hashish.

The site of much of this drug traffic is the rural southeast province of Holguin. In 2005, the head of Cuba’s border security ministry told foreign press that Holguin is “the region of Cuba most affected by drug trafficking.” Since then the area has become more popular with foreign tourists, providing both an increased market for drugs and a ready supply of potential smugglers.

Ultimately, it should be noted that the amount of drugs that pass through Cuba on their way to the United States pales in comparison to the country’s Caribbean neighbors, such as Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. For one thing, the 50-year-old embargo makes it very difficult for drug smugglers to bring their product into the US. Additionally, drug trafficking is one of the rare issues in which Cuban and American officials cooperate. As InSight Crime has reported, the US Interests Section in Havana has a Coast Guard representative in Havana, and leaked diplomatic cables reveal a level of engagement between the official and his counterparts in the Cuban Ministry of Interior (MININT) on the issue of drug flights from Jamaica.

This cooperation seems to be having an effect on US-Cuba relations, at least as they relate to crime. While State Department officials under President Ronald Reagan publicly accused Fidel Castro of attempting to traffic drugs in order to boost the Cuban economy, the State Department’s 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) acknowledges that the Cuban authorities have made major inroads against the drug trade. In a rare note of praise for the Castro government, it notes that “Cuba’s counternarcotics efforts have prevented illegal narcotics trafficking from having a significant impact on the island.”

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Manuel Antonio Noriega y las Aventuras Kaxtriztas

El ex dictador de 77 anos

He estado tratando de reconstruir alguno de los hechos mas contundentes y reveladores de las relaciones del kaxtrizmo con cuanto terrorista y delincuente pueda servirle para sus objetivos de mantenerlos chupando las mieles del poder con el totalitarismo mas absoluto y desalmado comparable en las ultimas decadas y salvando algunas distancias la dinastia que realiza lo suyo en la porcion coreana del norte.

Un buen dia de junio de 1989 que segun el calendario del año al parecer era domingo y yo hubiera jurado que era jueves (han pasado tantos años) tuvimos por desayuno el anuncio de la visita del presidente de Panama de cuyo nombre jamas me habia acordado pues simplemente era la tapadera del verdadero hombre fuerte panameño Manuel Antonio Noriega. Manuel Solis Palma llego a Cuba a media mañana, entrego e intercambio informacion con Fidel Kaxtro en un supuesto almuerzo y regreso a Panama despues de haber servido de corre-ve-dile de Noriega.

No hubo que esperar muchas horas para conocer el interes de la visita. Noriega, culpable de todos los delitos y crimenes posibles y entre ellos el trafico de drogas, , asesinatos politicos, complicidades de todo tipo para expoliar a los cubanos con aquellas tiendas del oro, trafico de las armas kaxtriztas y los terroristas para entrar y salir de Letrino America y muy en particular de El Salvador, pues Noriega alertaba al otro miembro de la banda que la administracion yanki tenia en sus manos todas las evidencias para actuar decididamente en su contra, la de los kaxtroz, como posteriormente actuaron contra el mismo Noriega con todo y sus machetes y sus complices y tontos utiles que pusieron los muertos mientras el aun respira.

Al dia siguiente la noticia era el arresto del General Arnaldo Ochoa que en 30 dias termino fusilado con otros tres chivos expiatorios del trafico de drogas que con tantos millones y millones de dolares habian engrosado la caja chica de todos los caprichos del Traficante en Jefe.

No perdio oportunidad el inconexo Eterno Segundon para en un ridiculo discurso lleno de contradicciones y con motivo de las fechas de Maceo y Che (la gran mancha parda o rojiza oscura de la que pudo ser algo mas progresista y humano) el 14 de junio tomar venganza y saciar sus envidias con el Ministerio del Interior y su ministro el General José “Pepe” Abrantes.

Al igual que ha ocurrido recientemente con la eliminacion de absolutamente todos los personajes de la gran tragedia cubana allegados al Gran Criminal comenzando por Carlos Lage y sin faltar alguno de los ministros con cartera o sin ella, Abrantes y las que serian las otras 4 victimas de las intrigas de lo mas oscuro del estalinismo caribeños todos despues de servir como perros babosos de la mayor sumision han sido todos abandonados al capricho y el dictamente del Segundon en Jefe, mas cinico, desalmado, intrigante y cruel de esta gran plaga que ha logrado tragarse y destruir a Cuba por mas de un larguisimo medio siglo.

Manuel Antonio Noriega, cuando decida publicar sus memorias y si es suficientemente arrojado y honesto tal vez nos sirva de testigo para que tanto incredulo e inocente conozca las verdaderas entrañas de lo que sufre el pueblo de Cuba. No les debe estar muy agradecido a sus manipuladores de la Isla pues cuando pretendia escapar a la justicia norteamericana entrando a la embajada cubana se le cerraron todas las puertas para que cumpliera sus bufonadas de luchar al machete o recibiera lo que le ha tocado.

Notas:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/OCHOA/_ARNALDO_/GENERAL_CUBANO/CASTRO/_FIDEL/ESTADOS_UNIDOS/CUBA/Castro/detiene/altos/mandos/militares/acusados/trafico/drogas/elpepiint/19890617elpepiint_16/Tes

"El ex comandante en jefe del contingente militar cubano en Angola y héroe de la revolución, general de brigada Arnaldo Ochoa, fue detenido el miércoles por las autoridades de su país bajo la acusación de tráfico de drogas y corrupción generalizada.

"Por su parte, Fidel Castro se vio forzado el jueves a reconocer públicamente que las viejas acusaciones norteamericanas según las cuales funcionarios cubanos de su régimen están implicados en el narcotráfico tenían fundamento.

http://www.cubaeuropa.com/historia/Fidel%20Castro/El%20Cartel%20de%20la%20Habana.htm

"Bajo la protección de la marina cubana, Escobar estableció sus cuarteles generales en Paredón Grande, en la costa norte de Cuba. El funcionario cubano exilado Oscar Valdés, hermano de Ramiro Valdés, miembro del buró político del PCC, ha declarado que él mismo le sirvió de guía a Escobar cuando éste visitó a Castro en Cuba. A raíz de la liquidación de Escobar en una operación de rastreo del gobierno colombiano en 1994, se incautó una grabación donde el narcotraficante aludía a una reunión que había coordinado entre comerciantes de la droga y Raúl Castro.

"El segundo al mando de las operaciones entre Escobar y Castro era el fugitivo norteamericano Robert Vesco. Figueres, ex presidente de Costa Rica, había dado refugio en ese país al estafador y narcotraficante Vesco, quien había huido de Estados Unidos en 1973 con $212 millones de dólares.

"Vesco era utilizado desde 1978 por Castro en actividades de narcotráfico. Vesco residía en el puerto de Barlovento cerca de La Habana. En Barlovento tiene Castro fondeado uno de sus yates personales, el Yagüaramas, en el que sale de pesquería frecuentemente con Vesco a las aguas del Caribe. Los contactos de Vesco eran el tenebroso personaje chileno Carlos Alfonso (Max Marambio) y el funcionario cubano José Luis Padrón.

"Castro pudo haberse enterado de estas operaciones a través de sus relaciones a más alto nivel con el Cartel de Medellín, o con Solís Palma, el entonces presidente de Panamá quien realizó una visita sorpresiva a Cuba dos días antes de los primeros arrestos.

En su testimonio ante el juicio, el general Ochoa haría referencia constante a un "amigo extranjero" que había propuesto a Cuba la venta y transporte de narcóticos. En comentarios íntimos después del juicio, Castro expresó que era interés de Cuba el mantener la identidad del extranjero en secreto. La verdadera razón era que el extranjero se mantenía activo realizando operaciones conjuntamente con La Habana. Pero Masetti, operativo del Departamento América que en 1991 desertó en Europa, ha revelado que el susodicho extranjero era el venezolano Luben Petkoff, quien en la década del sesenta había encabezado un movimiento guerrillero dentro de su país, el ELN, con el apoyo de La Habana27. En ocasión de la conferencia de Castro con los presidentes de México, Colombia y Venezuela en Cozumel, el 27 de octubre de 1991, Petkoff se entrevistó con la delegación cubana.

Dos años después de los hechos, Maida González, viuda del general Ochoa, rompió el silencio sobre el caso de su esposo concediendo una entrevista al diario español El Mundo. En ella expresó que su esposo había sido inocente de casi todos los cargos que se le imputaron29 "Dicho tráfico siempre estuvo en conocimiento de Fidel y Raúl Castro, quienes lo alentaron.... el único delito de mi esposo fue decirle a Fidel y a su hermano Raúl que la guerra de Angola era una locura". 

http://documentosdelpaskin.lacoctelera.net/post/2007/06/30/serie-crimen-oganizado-conexion-cubana

"El 13 de julio de 1989, en medio de la incredulidad de los cubanos, fueron fusilados en La Habana el general Arnaldo Ochoa, el coronel Antonio de la Guardia, el mayor Amado Padrón Trujillo y el capitán Jorge Martínez Valdés. En las semanas siguientes fue destituido el ministro del Interior, el general José Abrantes, quien poco después murió en la cárcel en extrañas circunstancias. Fue uno de los momentos más difíciles y oscuros vividos por los hermanos Fidel y Raúl Castro desde el inicio de la revolución en 1959.

 

La pugna de los colosos

Raúl Castro desconfiaba de Abrantes y de las fuerzas que dependían del Ministerio del Interior (Minint). El hermano de Fidel, a cargo del Ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Minfar), consideraba que el primero era demasiado grande, exageradamente poderoso, corrupto y cada vez más infiltrado por la inteligencia norteamericana.

"Los últimos datos habrían llegado en el maletín del Presidente de Panamá, Manuel Solís Palma, que visitó por sorpresa Cuba el 11 de junio.

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